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PHP

Posted by Dimitrios Petropoulos
Dimitrios Petropoulos
824 Points

Echo data from mysql to php

Hello,

I am new to programming and i am trying to echo some data from a mysql table to php. Could you please give some guidance?

3 Answers

Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

Hello Dimitri,

Not sure what the data in the table looks like or what you want to do with it. But here is a general solution:

//Select all(*) records in the YOUR_TABLE table and store them in a variable called $sql.
$sql = "SELECT * FROM YOUR_TABLE";

//Echo the sql data stored inside the variable
echo $sql;

//(Optional) To view the data in your browser you could do this
//Store the results of your query
$results = mysqli_query($sql);

//Dump the data inside the results to the screen
var_dump($results);

Hopefully this is helpful!

Mike

Benjamin Orimoloye
Benjamin Orimoloye
23,328 Points
Benjamin Orimoloye
Benjamin Orimoloye
23,328 Points

I think you should go through the Beginner PHP course to really understand. But to answer your question, the steps will be to query the database, store the result in a variable (an array), and echo the one or more of the values in the array. That's the general principle.

Dimitrios Petropoulos
Dimitrios Petropoulos
824 Points
Dimitrios Petropoulos
Dimitrios Petropoulos
824 Points

Thank you both!

Now it seems to fetch the data from the database but what i actually see is this string: object(mysqli_result)#59 (5) { ["current_field"]=> int(0) ["field_count"]=> int(5) ["lengths"]=> NULL ["num_rows"]=> int(1) ["type"]=> int(0) } $result

The fact is that the table inculdes four categories that i would like to echo on the browser, employee_id, gear, startdate and enddate and i am missing the way that i have to follow to do so.

FYI the software is in YII framework.